Personal Stress Assessment Inventory Participant Workbook

Beat Stress by understanding the causes and managing reactions to it.
The Personal Stress Assessment Inventory (PSAI) helps participants analyze and understand all the factors that may cause high and potentially dysfunctional stress levels.
Participants will identify their

• predisposition (ways of looking at life’s events)
• resilience (ability to bounce back or take care of themselves)
• potential sources of stress (both work and non-work)
• health symptoms
• overall stress factor.

The scoring focuses on both “burn-out” and the possibility of “rust-out”.
There is a built-in honesty check based on the social desirability scale designed by Crowne and Marlowe.
The Facilitator Guide contains a suggested design for 2 sessions totaling 6 hours.
It also provides detailed administration, analysis, and debriefing guidelines for the PSAI and Participant Workbook. Furthermore, it gives background information on the PSAI conceptual model and illustrates a number of stress management strategies and techniques such as Autogenic Training.
The Participant Workbook supports the stress management workshop outlined in the Facilitator Guide. It includes interactive materials, a relevant case-study, and action plan guidelines.
Product format: Instrument and Workbook
Duration: varies
Suitable for all organization members
Learning Goal: To help participants understand stress and develop a stress management action plan
Author: Herbert Kindler, Ph.D.